The announcement on prior authorization comes months after the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, which ...

In American health care, the first opinion that matters often isn’t the doctors, it’s the insurers. That may be changing. At ...

Prior authorization refers to when medical providers have to get approval from insurers before performing a service. Patients ...

Burned-out primary care physicians are increasingly seeking safe haven in concierge care and other free-market models of ...

This 80-year-old physician is a lifeline during brutal winters in the Caucasus Mountains. Irakli Khvedaguridze, 80, is the only licensed doctor across nearly 386 square miles of mountainous land ...

This can include requests for diagnostic imaging, pain injections and the transfer of patients from hospitals to nursing ...

Major insurers say they’ll ease up on the prior-authorization practice that can delay necessary care for patients.